Dr Noriko Iwashita - LTRC Associate
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Email: n.iwashita@uq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA, Dip of Teaching, BA, MA, PHD
Research Fields
Language Assessment
- Investigation of acquisition measures in SLA research
- Task-based assessment
Second Language Acquisition
- Linguistic analysis of learner language
- Vocabulary acquisition
- Cross-linguistic investigation
- SLA in specific contexts (eg, instructional setting, language for specific purposes, English for academic purposes)
Foreign Language Pedagogy
Selected Publications
Iwashita, N. (in press). The role of task-based conversation in the acquisition of Japanese as a second language: differential effects of feedback. Journal of Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language 9.
Iwashita, N. (in press). Syntactic complexity measures and their relation to oral proficiency in Japanese as a foreign language. Language Assessment Quarterly 2 (4).
Iwashita, N. (2004). The role of conversation in SLA: review of studies on negative feedback and directions of future research. Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language 7: 163-185.
Iwashita, N. (2003) "Positive and negative input in task-based interaction: differential affects on L2 development." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25(1): 1-36
Iwashita, N. & Liem, I. (2005). Factors affecting foreign language achievement in primary school. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25(1): 1-21.
Iwashita, N. & Grove, E. (2003). A comparison of analytic and holistic scales in the context of a specific- purpose speaking test. Prospect 18 (3): 25-35.
Iwashita, N., McNamara, T. and Elder, C. (2001). “Can we predict task difficulty in an oral proficiency test? Exploring the potential of an information processing approach to task design.” Language Learning 21(3) 401-436.
Iwashita, N., Brown, A., McNamara, T. & O’Hagan, S. (in press) “What features of language distinguish levels of learner proficiency? in-depth analysis of task performance in the context of the speaking scale development” Applied Linguistics.
Brown, A., Iwashita, N., & McNamara, T. (2005). An examination of rater orientations and test taker performance on English for academic purposes speaking tasks. TOEFL Monograph Series. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
Elder, C. & Iwashita, N. (2005). Planning for test performance: does it make a difference? In Ellis, R. (Ed.), Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.